Frederic smith



F. SMITH. Breach-:Loading Fire-Arms.

FREDERIC SMITH, OF SULIHUR SPRINGS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR' OF TWOTHIRDS HIS RIGHT TO VIIJLIAM S.

BACON, on SAME-Million.

IMPRGVEWII'NT liti BREEQl-l-LOADING NRE-ARMS.

Speclatitn forming part of Letters Patent No. 3.5

@922;1, dated December 29,1874; application liled Aprnmim.

To all whom t may 001mm: ,l

Be it known that I, FREDERIC SMlTH, of( Sulphur Springs, in 'the county of Crawford and State of Ohio, have invented certain new :unl useful Improvements in Breeeh-Londiug Fire-Arms; and I do hereby declare the following to be e full, elem', and exeet description oi" the invention, snel.: isn'ill vena-ble' others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make und use it, reference being` hnd to the neeompnnying' drnwings, which form part of this specification.

Figure l is n longitudinal sectional View, with :t portion of the intermediate gnnlmrrel broken nwny. Fig. 2 is n., plun View of the liloclisiglit. Fig. 3 is :t longitudinal seetionnl View of zt p11-rt of the adjustable gun-sight. v

My invention consists in the eniployi'iient of :t poenlinrly-eonstriieted hreeelrpin its e menus of altering,r breeelrlonding; iirenrms to muzzleloaders, end nn improved adjustable globe or open sight for renderiu moreeonrenient and certain the nim of the pieee.

A is a Cylindrical and mljnsi'nhlo breeeh-pin whieh is inserted in the breech ol u hreeehlending lire-arm, for the eonrersion oi' :L breeehlending fire-arm into/ai muzzle-loader, whereby Awhen desirable, he removed', es is the empty lindriettl breech-pin A, lin-ving an orifice, O, therein, I(mnd lnngge D thereon, with the tube B and gun-barrel M, snbstnnti-,illy ns shown "and described.

In testimony that I elnim the foregoing here hereunto set my hond this .Gtlrdny ot' Jnnfunry, 1874.

` FREDERIC SMITH.

fitnessesz W. S. BACON,

the piece muy be loaded and fired ns n muzzlel Jn 1I. FRY, Jr.

loader. The breech-pin, heine; adjustable, een,

eartridgeshell upon the discharge of the fne'ee."

The eombinntion and Ierrnngem'eiit of the ey- 

